Meghan Donohue
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
- Phone: 314-286-2671
- Email: rdonohue@nospam.wustl.edu
Education & Training
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2021
- Clinical Internship: Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, 2018
- Ph.D.: Georgia State University, 2018
Areas of Clinical Interest
Treatment of child & adolescent anxiety; diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders in toddlers
Research Interests
Development of moral emotions and behaviors in early childhood and ways in which aberrant moral development contribute to risk for psychopathology
Recent Publications
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Preschool Mood Disorders: A Review of the Literature from 2017 to 2024
Hoyniak, C. P., Donohue, M. R., Hennefield, L. & Whalen, D. J., Apr 2025, In: Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America. 34, 2, p. 325-337 13 p.
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Preadolescent Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors: An Intensive Longitudinal Study of Risk Factors
Thompson, R. J., Whalen, D. J., Gilbert, K., Tillman, R., Hennefield, L., Donohue, M. R., Hoyniak, C. P., Barch, D. M. & Luby, J. L., Mar 2025, In: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 64, 3, p. 375-385 11 p.
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Prevalence and Characteristics of Infants’ Prosocial Helping Strategies Between 11 and 20 Months of Age
Donohue, M. R., Hennefield, L., Rogers, C. E., Barch, D. M. & Luby, J., Aug 12 2024, In: Developmental Psychology. 61, 2, p. 215-227 13 p.
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Newborn Brain Function and Early Emerging Callous-Unemotional Traits
Brady, R. G., Donohue, M. R., Waller, R., Latham, A., Ayala, M., Smyser, T. A., Warner, B. B., Barch, D. M., Luby, J. L., Rogers, C. E. & Smyser, C. D., Mar 6 2024, In: JAMA psychiatry. 81, 3, p. 303-311 9 p.
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Less attention to emotional faces is associated with low empathy and prosociality in 12-to 20-month old infants
Donohue, M. R., Camacho, M. C., Drake, J. E., Schwarzlose, R. F., Brady, R. G., Hoyniak, C. P., Hennefield, L., Wakschlag, L. S., Rogers, C. E., Barch, D. M. & Luby, J., Mar 1 2024, In: Infancy. 29, 2, p. 113-136 24 p.